World Athletics Championships 1991/50 km men's walk
| 3rd World Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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| discipline | 50 km walk | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 38 walkers from 19 countries | ||||||||
| venue |
 Tokyo
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| Competition location | Round trip through Tokyo | ||||||||
| Competition phase | August 31 | ||||||||
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The men's 50km walk at the 1991 World Athletics Championships was held on the streets of Tokyo on August 31, 1991 .
In this competition, the Soviet walkers celebrated a double victory. Aljaksandr Pataschou became world champion . Second place went to the reigning European champion and owner of the world record, Andrei Perlow . Bronze went to the German Hartwig Gauder , who became Olympic champion in 1980 and world champion in 1987 as an athlete for the GDR .
Existing records / best performances
| World record | 3:37:41 h |
 Andrei Perlow
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Leningrad (today St. Petersburg ), Soviet Union (today Russia ) | 5th August 1989 |
| World Cup record | 3:40:53 h |
 Maurizio Damilano
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World Cup 1987 in Rome , Italy | August 30, 1987 |
Note:
At that time, records were not kept in marathon running and street walking because of the different track conditions with the exception of championship records.
Under the very unfavorable external conditions - see below - the world championship record was not achieved at these world championships.
execution
There was no preliminary round, all 38 walkers went to the final together.
The competition started at 7:00 a.m. local time. Nevertheless, the external conditions - 25 ° Celsius and 97% humidity - were an enormous burden for the participants. As a result, twelve of the 38 walkers who started gave up.
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Course of competition
After the 20 km mark had been passed in 1:33:03 h, the two Soviet walkers Aljaksandr Pataschou and the reigning European champion and holder of the world record Andrei Perlow accelerated the pace. Initially, the third Soviet participant Vitaly Popowitsch and the German defending champion and Olympic champion from 1980 Hartwig Gauder could still keep up. But soon Pataschou and Perlow left. In the further course Gauder shook off his companion Popovich. The two leaders reached the stadium together and decided - as they reported afterwards - fifty meters before the end not to fight each other for victory, but to cross the finish line together, which they did arm in arm. Such an outcome is not provided for in the regulations, however, the officials did not want to accept the intention of the two first-placed winners. They looked for a difference in the finish photo and decided that Pataschou had crossed the finish line by a hundredth of a second ahead of Perlow. Aljaksandr Pataschou was declared world champion and Andrei Perlow was declared runner-up. Hartwig Gauder held his third place and won the bronze medal. Vitaly Popovich was fourth.
Result
August 31, 1991, 7:00 a.m.
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Web links
- World Championships in Athletics, 3rd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed April 24, 2020
- Men 50km Walk Athletics III World Championship 1991 Tokyo (JPN) on todor66.com, accessed April 24, 2020
- Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 50km Walk, Tokyo 1991, p. 215 (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on April 24, 2020
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF world records. 50 km go men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 24, 2020